The Four States of Understanding: Wisdom from the Gita
Discover how the number four has significance in many ways in the scriptures of India and other mystical writings. How does this apply to you?
Ten Important Principles for Yoga
Successful practice of yoga is not haphazard: discover ten important principles as outlined in Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. These are Yama and Niyama, often called the “Ten Commandments of Yoga.”
The Bhagavad Gita: Literal or Symbolic (or Both)?
For us who are sitting with Arjuna listening to Krishna’s revelation, the Bhagavad Gita must be seen as both literal and symbolic–simultaneously.
7 Things You Can Do About Those Who Say You Are a Godless Heathen
Do people call you a godless heathen? Congratulations! If you weren’t on the right track those on the wrong track would not be so hysterically fearful of you and your spiritual path.
Our Changeless Self
We are encased in five bodies: annamaya, pranamaya, manomaya, jnanamaya, and anandamaya koshas–coverings… The idea is that no matter what our consciousness is encased in or what kind of external force is “working” on us, our true self, our true nature, cannot be altered in any manner whatsoever.
The Mystical Wisdom of St. John the Beloved Disciple
This article explores the mystical insights of the beginning of the Gospel of Saint John: }In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God,” etc.